I see all forms of electronic pay the same as I see bitcoin. It only exist till it doesn’t. While cash may seem antiquated it is under your control.

My only concern is that being built and the same platform as the Pilot it will still get shitty MPG. I do like the storage though. I would like to see more makers put storage bins in the side rails of the bed like Dodge did once. Won’t allow you to put a cap on it but with covered storage you don’t need a cap.

Holy F@&K! That sucks.

No. If there are any similarities between Volvo and Ford it would only be because Ford is contractually obligated to supply parts to them as part of the sale to the Chinese. All Fords are their own design and parts since 2007.

That is not a truck. This is a Truck!

Not sure how I feel about them myself. I like that I am the one making the gear choices. Most rotary shifters still use a cable but it is controlled by an actuator motor to move the cable remotely. Think wiper motor. Some are now starting to control the gears via solenoids in the valve body but not most.

My wife has a 2010 Fuison 6MT. Won’t drive anything but manuals. God I love that women.

Looking at this I see this.

The corner is not a window, sorry.

Ford did it on the Freestar years ago by hiding it under the quarter window. It looks like FCA just tucked it farther up.

I have to agree with you on this one.

You look at this and,

I would take it and drive it into a tree.

Oh how I would take that shit. Who cares if you trash it. I would put minimum into it. Just enough to make it scary to my neighbors. 1 seat, one big used V8 and tubular bumpers. It would become my Mad Max kill machine.

I am pretty sure that is a Subaru Forester. :-)

The exhaust was Henrik’s idea. He insisted that the bottom on the car be absolutely flat. So no tubes, exhaust, nothing under the floor. I always thought that was really stupid. I could tell you some stories about that car.

There wasn’t any access but from above and you had reach under and up to get your hand on the filter and because the filter was mounted horizontally it drained the oil out and on everything including the exhaust as soon as you loosened it.

Having worked on a lot of GM V8’s in my day, I can say the mix of spark plugs you found was pretty typical of an older GM after being on the road for a few years.

Sorry to disagree with you but I remember Toyota having their oil filter between the block and the exhaust manifold on the Corolla back in the 90’s burnt my hand too many times.

All of them!